lol! Exciting indeed. 

So you're just using a store bought encoder or did you get some sort of cheap substitute replacement somewhere? (Thanks for the help)

Dave

I am using a Nemicon manual pulse generator the same as I have on the Mill and Lathe, see pic below. Any TTL output encoder would work, even the scroll wheel of a mouse I suppose.
Hood

even the scroll wheel of a mouse I suppose

Exactly- 

Hi Hood,

Is you Lathe screen available for download.

Cheers,

Peter.

afraid not Peter, its just a cobbled together adaption of my Mill screen and has many things that are not right or named wrongly etc.
Hood

Just curious Hood, did you choose to modify a Mill screenset for the lathe because of the problems with trying to modify a lathe screen with Screen 4?

Thanks,
Dave

No, just liked my screenset for the mill and when I got the Lathe running I figured I would just alter my mill screen to suit the Lathe.
 I dont have any problems with Screen4 now, did in the very early days and that is why I have a stuck and expanded background image on the Diagnostics page, just cant get rid of it and would have to redo the whole sceenset and I am too lazy to do that

Hood

Ah, thanks for the screen info - 

Just connect the A and B channels of your MPG (encoder) to 2 pins on Pokey, select one of the pins in the Pokey panel and choose digital Input then select encoder and A, do the same for the next pin but select B. Get your power source hooked to the encoder and tie the 0v line of this to the Pokey grnd pin and thats it. You can watch the pulses count up and down as you turn one way then the other in the Pokey tool then encoder. Gets real exciting watching the numbers count up and down

Hood

Hood, are you getting your 5 volt power from the PoKeys device?

Thanks,
Dave

No, was using a bench power supply but when I am ready to set this up for good I will use power from a BOB or the computer powersupply, USB could probably stand the draw no problem but dont like loading the USB if not needed..
Hood

Does anyone know if this gizmo works OK with the smoothstepper on the same system.?

Phil_H